Kicking off Computer Science Education Week, the nonprofit debuted the "Hour of Code" initiative, which provides interactive online tutorials to help get students, teachers, and parents excited about coding. Support from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jack Dorsey has helped to raise awareness and gain millions of participants, including Ashton Kutcher and Shakira. Apple is also providing a communal coding experience with a free one-hour workshop on Wednesday.

In other news, it appears Facebook toyed with the idea of adding a "Sympathize" button to its social network, for those situations when "liking" a status or photo just seems inappropriate. A developer came up with the "sympathize" button at a recent hackathon event, but Facebook has no plans to add the option to the site.

Be sure to check out PCMag Live from Monday in the video, as well as a few other stories making headlines in the links below.

Wireless Carriers Reveal User Data Requests: Federal, state, and local law enforcement officials in the U.S. made more than 1 million requests for cell phone records in 2012, Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey revealed.

Stephanie began as a PCMag reporter in May 2012. She moved to New York City from Frederick, Md., where she worked for four years as a multimedia reporter at the second-largest daily newspaper in Maryland. She interned at Baltimore magazine and graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (in the town of Indiana, in the state of Pennsylvania) with a degree in journalism and mass communications.
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